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A similar survey of the road remnant near the eastern project border should also be undertaken. This will help verify the presence of the Trading Path, thus marking where the eastern boundary of the proposed St. Mary ' s Rural Historic District should be placed . Some of the below-ground structural remains, and the extent of the Trading Path, can be ascertained from infrared aerial photographs taken by Scott Madry in the mid 1980s (Madry, personal communication 1999) . Although this important historic property is being preserved, it is recommended that a systematic survey of plantation resources be undertaken. A systematic , intensive shovel test of the plantation would reveal patterns of settlement and land use . These data would help Orange County and Ayr Mount ' s owners integrate archaeological information with other needs while planning any possible future alterations to the Ayr Mount landscape . The Ayr Mount National Register of Historic Places nomination (Or2 , 1971 ) does not reflect the importance of the Trading Path, nor does it describe the below and above ground outbuildings and outbuilding remnants at the plantation. It is recommended that the National Register of Historic Places form for Ayr Mount Plantation be amended to incorporate information on the Trading Path, on Ayr Mount ' s historic landscape , and on associated archaeological resources . Taverns- Ayr Mount is also important as the possible location of Few' s 1763 tavern site . An intensive shovel testing program on knolls along the southern boundary of the Trading Path should reveal the remains of this important eighteenth- century site . There is still debate as to whether a fieldstone foundation ruin in the woods just east of the Kirkland mansion stems from a barn and/or from Few ' s tavern. Another prime spot for the location of the tavern would be just west of the mansion, on high ground near the modern- day slough south of the Trading Path. Farmsteads and Plantations- Historical archaeological research at any of the known historic farms and plantations would add important information to the St . Mary ' s Road Corridor database . However , since there are numerous sites and standing structures , a selected sample of those sites should be undertaken. This would provide needed additional information to strengthen the National Register of Historic Places nomination for the district . Henry has stated that the plantation of John Berry ( Sunnyside , Or692) is of prime importance in the proposed district (personal communication, 1999) . No outbuildings from the property' s period of significance, beginning about 1848 , are extant . An intensive archaeological survey of the nucleus of the plantation should uncover important information about the spatial pattern of land use over time at the property. Additional historical research should also help isolate where certain features , such as slave quarters, might be located . The archaeological data may prove to be a contributing component of the property ' s potential National Register of Historic Places eligibility. The Walker property (0018 ) offers potential important archaeological information pertaining to area settlements in the early nineteenth through twentieth centuries . This architectural survey site contains an extant portion of the original homestead dating from about 1814 . The ruins of one of the outbuildings, a kitchen, were observed by the architectural historian (Henry, personal communication 1999) . This site 48